CAIRO: Judge Abdel Moez Ibrahim, head of the Supreme Electoral Commission, said he did not know of the decision by the chief of the General Commission concerning delaying or canceling vote counting in Cairo's first district. Ibrahim said he did mot issue a decision to cancel the vote count. He said that he learned this information from Youm7 and he will soon take action to find out what is happening in the district. Judicial sources said Judge Moataz Khafaga, chief of the General Commission of Cairo's first district, took the decision to cancel the count independently. He called all judges responsible for counting to withdraw because ballot boxes were not sealed by red wax inside polling stations in Galal Fahmy School and were closed from outside without a security guard. The Egyptian army secured the judges as they left. One of the subsidiary commissions' chiefs, who asked that his name not be revealed, said that the General Commission chief left with some judges that were panicked, fearing that people would attack them, and that most of the subsidiary commissions' chiefs were about to finish sorting. They were surprised by one of the citizens holding a microphone and calling the judges to return because Shubra would burn because of this decision.
